Welcome the Dead
Sorcery
Draw two cards, then discard a card and you lose 2 life. Create X tapped 2/2 black Zombie Druid creature tokens, where X is the number of cards that were put into your graveyard from your hand or library this turn.
Flashback 
(You may cast this card from your graveyard for its flashback cost. Then exile it.)
- CMC
- 4
- Mana cost
- Color identity
- B
- Rarity
- rare
- Set
- Tarkir: Dragonstorm Commander
- Price
- $0.28
- EDHREC rank
- #7593
Welcome the Dead puts two 2/2 zombie tokens on the board the turn a nontoken creature dies — immediate, repeatable pressure that doubles as graveyard synergy fuel. The one-mana flash enchantment is the kind of card Teval, the Balanced Scale decks slot in and never cut.
Best Commanders
Commanders with the highest synergy
Teval, the Balanced Scale
Teval, the Balanced Scale mills constantly and rewards you for having creatures in the graveyard, so Welcome the Dead converts every milled nontoken creature into board presence without any additional setup.
Format Analysis
Where it lives, where it can’t
| Format | Verdict |
|---|---|
| commander | legal |
| legacy | legal |
| modern | not legal |
| pioneer | not legal |
| standard | not legal |
| vintage | legal |
| pauper | not legal |
| oathbreaker | legal |
Welcome the Dead is a Commander card through and through — the longer the game, the more triggers it accumulates, and a 100-card singleton environment with four opponents guarantees creatures die every turn cycle. Legacy and Vintage are legal but have no interest in a one-mana enchantment that produces 2/2s at sorcery-relevant moments when faster, more broken things are happening. Modern, Pioneer, Standard, and Pauper are all non-starters legally. Stick to Commander, where Welcome the Dead earns its slot in any black deck that cares about creature death.
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Price Context
Current price
$0.28 bulk tier
At $0.28, Welcome the Dead is deep bulk — you're paying for cardboard and postage, not the card itself. Bulk rares with this level of Commander adoption tend to stay in this range unless a reprint or breakout deck pushes demand, so grab copies freely without worrying about the price moving against you.
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Updated . Data from Scryfall, EDHREC, and Commander Spellbook.